DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Hosts Michiana Teacher Workshop
NOTRE DAME — From 4-7 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center will host an educator’s workshop, “Acting Right: Drama As a Classroom Management Strategy,” as part of their Partners in Education partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Kennedy Center defines arts integration as an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process, which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.
The workshop will be led by South Bend native Kassie Misiewicz, who will discuss how to use the foundational elements of acting, such as concentration, cooperation and collaboration to create a structured process for effective classroom management. This engaging, step-by-step approach empowers students to take ownership of and be responsible for their own behavior. Teachers will be instructed on ways the arts — drama, music, dance and visual — can help students build skills in self-control, accountability and team building.
The next workshop in the Partners in Education series, “Moving Through Math: Grouping Games for Teaching the Language of Mathematics,” will take place from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11.